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The beneficiaries include workers whose labour contracts are suspended or those
who have to leave their jobs without any salaries at firms, public and private
primary and secondary educational establishments during the time of temporary
closure to curb the spread of the pandemic.
An estimated budget of 33.6 billion VND (1.46 million USD) is set to support
50,000 people.
The VGCL also asked the Government to add more pandemic-hit workers into the
list of beneficiaries.
It put forward assistance in cash for workers who had to stop working in over
two weeks for they must stay in concentrated quarantine facilities, at their
accommodations or sealed off areas.
Some 60 billion VND sourced from the State budget will be earmarked for 60,000
people from June 1 until the end of this year.
Source: VNA
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